WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Bianca Belair appeared on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast with O’Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson, where she talked about a number of topics including who is the inspiration behind her signature braid.
Belair said, “As far as the braid, the person behind the braid is actually [Montez Ford]. Yeah, so kudos to him. I’m a huge Beyonce fan, she wore a braid at the concert and I was like, I’m just gonna wear one just for a style. I wore it one time at practice and my coach was like, ‘If you’re gonna wear it, you’re gonna have to figure out how to use it because the girls are just gonna pull on it.’ I was talking to my husband like, ‘Well, I don’t know if I want to wear the braid, I kind of want to wear my hair down because I see what all of the other girls are doing, they have their hair down and it’s pretty.’ My husband was like, ‘Nope. The best way to be successful in this business is to stand out. Look at what everybody else is doing and do the complete opposite.’ He said, ‘Nobody else wears that braid, so, wear it. You’re going to stand out. Somebody might come to a show for the first time and they might not remember your name, but they’ll remember the girl with the braid.’ Because of him, I wore it and now it’s my thing.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
